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White Chicks
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some drug content
Starring
Marlon Wayans,
Shawn Wayans,
Jaime King,
Frankie Faison,
Lochlyn Munro,
and
John Heard
Two African-American men trying to pass themselves off as very, very, very white women? Sounds preposterous. But with the help of an FBI friend, who just happens to be a genius with make-up, that's exactly what the hapless Marcus and Kevin Copeland (Marlon and Shawn Wayans) do when they go undercover as Hamptons' socialites Tiffany and Brittany Wilson. (Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Crime
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew McElfresh,
Michael Anthony Snowden,
Xavier Cook,
Kennen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon Wayans (also story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 26, 2004
Video: October 26, 2004
Theatrical: June 23, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
USA Today
Mike Clark
What we get is a tweaked variation on the litany of men-disguised-as-women comedies: "Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie," just for starters. Obviously, this sassy farce sounds recycled and certainly appears to be in the coming attraction. Yet it's also funnier than expected in ways you wouldn't expect.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Even if it lingers a bit too long, White Chicks represents a solid accomplishment for the crowd-pleasing Wayans brothers.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
This is the kind of film that will leave many audience members groaning with laughter -- and others simply groaning. It's skit/situation comedy that exploits stereotypes with a vengeance and knows no shame in borrowing from much better movies ranging from "Some Like It Hot" to "Tootsie."
70
Variety
David Rooney
As lowbrow comedies go, it pretty much delivers.
70
Chicago Reader
Staff (Not credited)
Doesn't make a lick of sense, and its borderline racism and sexism will offend plenty of people. But comedy is all salesmanship, and these guys sold me; their giddy nonchalance reminds me of kids competing to crack each other up at bedtime after mom has given them Pepsi with dinner.
70
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Harmless slapstick fun.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
The first family of black comedy goes at this bawdy burlesque with a broad brush. They get their laughs, but not without a lot of unsightly spillage.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles.
50
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Wisely, the filmmakers don't try to reform the real rich-bitch divas -- some cultural icons are beyond redemption.
50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
But it's not what the Wayans brothers do, it's how they do it. They do it funny.
50
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
They resort too often to infantile flatulence jokes and fairly obvious gags about errant G-strings, with the anorexic plot culminating in the brothers having - yawn - learned to respect women's feelings.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
In White Chicks, the gross-out humor is minimal, no character comes off too badly and lessons are learned. Oh Wayanses, where are thy teeth?
50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
When Crews is onscreen, White Chicks is a film that fears nothing and no one. When he's not, it's a film too tentative and soft-hearted to scale the farcical heights to which it aspires.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
White Chicks could and should be a much more mischievous movie. A half-dozen writers have managed to create a succession of thin sketches that add up to "Some Like It Warmed Over," with a touch of stink.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
For a film that uses race, class and sexual stereotypes as the starting point, this is disappointingly skin deep.
50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The mere sight of strapping men in micro-mini skirts suffering the indignities of thong underwear, catcalls and pushy pick-up artists is good for a couple of lowbrow laughs, but they're buried pretty deep in dreck.
40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Stupidity has worked for the Wayans brothers in the past, but White Chicks will likely test the patience of even their most loyal fans.
40
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
Bottom line, the white chicks scare me.
Seriously. They’re freaky looking. They are the stuff of nightmares.
40
Empire
Angie Errigo
Be warned - Damon isn't in this one.
38
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Despite the attempts of the Academy Award-winning makeup artist behind Mrs. Doubtfire, these doubtful misfires can't pass as white or as chicks.
38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater.
38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Some film premises are so outlandish, so thinly worked out and so deep-down ridiculous that they wind up sinking the show -- and White Chicks collapses under a real doozy.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
We're bombarded by witless racial clichés, stale sexism and homophobia and enthusiastic celebrations of extreme flatulence.
30
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
Credibility, of course, wouldn't matter if the gags were good enough, which they are not. The film quickly falls back on the gross-out jokes that have made recent American comedies such a challenge to the digestive tract.
30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The script, written by the three brothers, is ludicrous and incomprehensible, and plays cat-and-mouse games with what could have been some deeply funny comments on race, wealth, and, in one inspired changing-room scene, eating disorders.
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Laugh? I thought I'd never start.
25
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Worthless, tasteless and unfunny.
25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Like its eponymous subject, it succeeds only in being shallow and crass and not very much fun to be around.
20
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Instead of satire, we're treated to diarrhea jokes, dogs dangled from the windows of speeding SUVs and tasteless sobriquets bestowed upon anyone who looks vaguely ethnic.
20
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
It's such a dumb movie, it's hard to believe it wasn't an SNL sketch first.
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